Lufthansa has revealed that it won’t run any flights from its hubs in Frankfurt Airport and Munich Airport today. Few, if any, flights are expected to be able to depart these airports due to strike action from airport staff belonging to the Verdi union. More than 1,300 flights are affected by the announcement.

It is not a good week to be Lufthansa. Yesterday, the airline faced massive disruption after severed fiber optic cables grounded its IT systems. Now, the airline’s operations will be totally paralyzed for the second time in three days.

No flights today

Today is not a good day to be a Lufthansa passenger. Due to strikes by airport staff in Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Dortmund, Hannover, and Bremen, the German flag carrier isn’t planning to operate any flights out of Frankfurt or Munich today.

Confirming what we already knew, Frankfurt Airport and Munich Airport will be essentially off-limits to passengers today because of the strikes. This has essentially forced Lufthansa’s hand in cancelling the flights.

Commenting on the cancellations, Michael Niggemann, Member of the Executive Board and Chief Officer of Human Resources & Infrastructure at Lufthansa Group, remarked,

“We regret the enormous impact of this warning strike which is being carried out at the expense of our passengers. We are not a party to the collective bargaining and have no influence on it – nevertheless, our guests and we are massively affected. More than 1,300 flight cancellations for Lufthansa Group airlines alone show once again how vulnerable and fragile the air transport system is to strike activity.”